Facing financial ruin, a pregnant Colombian woman turns to work as a drug mule.

ABSTRACTSeventeen-year old Maria Alvarez, saddled with an unwanted pregnancy, slaves away at a thankless job on a rose plantation to support her impoverished family. Facing absolute financial ruin when she is fired from her job, a desperate Maria accepts an offer to become a drug mule, thrust into the grisly world of drug trafficking as she is expected to hop a flight to the United States with sixty-two pellets of cocaine in her stomach.

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